What does Chaos results when the lawful social order is broken mean in Julius Caesar?

Answer 1

Shakespeare did not use the word "chaos" in Julius Caesar, so either you found this sentence in a commentary on the play or in someone else's play of Julius Caesar. Chaos is a lack of order, a mixed up mess with no structure or functionality. By "lawful social order" the writer is describing a social structure governed by laws and rules. It is broken when someone breaks those rules. Presumably what the writer is trying to suggest is that by attempting to change the government by murdering Caesar, the conspirators broke the "lawful social order" and chaos ensued. Perhaps he or she would point to the behaviour of the mob in killing the poet Cinna. But in fact, chaos does not result from the assassination either in the play or in history. In the play, Antony, joined by Octavian, step immediately into Caesar's shoes and become the new dictators. The assassins succeed in changing one dictator for another. Indeed, history shows us that assassination of the dictator is a part of the "lawful social order" in a Dictatorship; it's the way you change the government when there are no elections. It was used over and over in the centuries of Roman Empire which followed.

Answer 2

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